While other free and proprietary software with similar capabilities exists, Inkscape provides an interface to directly manipulate the underlying SVG code. More than just a text vector editor, Inkscape provides a WYSIWYG interface for manipulation of vector images, allowing the artist to express himself freely. It's very stable & really does almost everything Illustrator does, only it's WAY better because it's Open Source & totally FREE.Inkscape is an open source drawing tool for creating and editing SVG graphics. Making the above changes took about half an hour & now Inkscape. Just Google 'Inkscape Mac GTK themes & toolsets'. There are several sites that show you how to do this. I upgraded the butt-ugly Inkscape Windoze GUI theme to a snazzy dark grey GTK theme & tool set, which makes it look & almost like native Mac software. I makes my workflow much smoother & more efficient. This means I can use Inkscape without constantly stumbling around the keyboard. I altered the XQuartz (X11) keyboard commands to use the Command key instead of the Control key. 91 runs almost like a native Mac app-once I made two changes:ġ. Inkscape was always awkward on a Mac because it used X11 & Windoze key commands & the clunky Windoze interface.īut now Inkscape. I've been waiting for the promised Inkscape Mac native version for years, ever since Adobe bought & killed Freehand because Illustrator couldn't compete with it. Numerous crash & bug fixes in the main Inkscape program and in in the stock extensions.Lots of improvements to the user interface.Performance gains for many parts of the interface and many different functions.Configurable Tool bar, continuous icon scaling and many more new customization options.Convenience Boolean operation for splitting paths.Flowing text around shapes and text padding.

Gradient editing in the Fill and Stroke dialog.

All alignment options in a single dialog.

Selectable object origin for numerical scaling and moving.

Import SVG images from Open Clipart, Wikimedia Commons and other online sources.Redesigned Export dialog with preview and ability to select objects/layers/pages and even multiple file formats to export to.On-canvas alignment snapping and Snap settings redesign.Inkscape documents can now hold multiple pages, which are managed by the new Page tool.